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9 Mar 2016, 3:03 pm by Lyle Denniston
The last time the Supreme Court interpreted the scope of the Insular Cases in a major decision was in the 2008 ruling in Boumediene v. [read post]
6 Mar 2016, 7:06 am by Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman
In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, including Boston, a daycare injury lawsuit will typically be filed under a theory of negligence. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 7:00 am by Samantha Knights, Matrix
Of interest to constitutional lawyers, the Court embarked upon a detailed consideration of an earlier decision in Quark Fishing Ltd v UK, App. [read post]
30 Dec 2015, 11:36 pm
 In October 2012, a majority of the High Court ruled that even though the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (Cth) restricted the intellectual property rights of the tobacco companies and regulated the packaging and presentation of tobacco products, the legislation was not an “acquisition” under section 51(xxxi) of the Australian Constitution, as there was no proprietary benefit or advantage conferred on the Commonwealth of Australia (JT International SA v… [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 9:22 pm by Paul Horwitz
In the nineteenth century, many common or public schools, believing that religious and moral education was important but facing doctrinal disagreements within the broad Protestant majority, adopted a practice that John Jeffries and James Ryan call a "least-common-denominator Protestantism" that avoided areas of controversy. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 4:09 pm by INFORRM
Dr Rolph’s account of the tortuous process by which uniform defamation law was achieved in 2005 leads us closer to an understanding of the problem, by explaining that, until Commonwealth Attorney-General Philip Ruddock threatened to draft Commonwealth legislation based on the communications and corporations power, defamation law reform was rarely seen by state politicians as having any sort of priority. [read post]